I greatly enjoyed it. You have talked about this before, but this was a wonderful explanation in a more visual form. And thank you for not putting it behind the paywall. I shared it on Twitter and with several people.
I'm sorry, but I really did not like it. It seems way oversimplified and dismissive. Look at the '60s we had the same situation but only a handful of television networks. You cannot just blame this on the internet and polarized media as if many of the issues driving this revolt do not exist. I think if you really want to understand what is going on you need another axis to the political spectrum, namely view on institutions. The traditional American classical liberalism has always had a distrust of institutions and the people who run them while the neoliberal and neoconservative tradition has an unwavering trust in institutions and experts and if had not noticed, they are the ones who have run things for over the past two decades.
Nice job. Another explanation (which does not exclude but overlaps this one) is that the power structures (ie "the center") have been gradually and globally overtaken by sociopaths (proclaimed left OR right). A phenomenon that seemingly occurs when "normal" people stop paying attention or investing their time and energy, thus opening the way to the most opportunistic and unethical portion of the population.
Love this well-produced distillation of broken media in particular. Another strand, it seems to me, may be the cultural differences between legacy media professionals (highly educated, from materially comfortable backgrounds) and many of their former audiences. While the internet changed the structure of media I keep thinking that this cultural gap is the really salient one.
I greatly enjoyed it. You have talked about this before, but this was a wonderful explanation in a more visual form. And thank you for not putting it behind the paywall. I shared it on Twitter and with several people.
I'm sorry, but I really did not like it. It seems way oversimplified and dismissive. Look at the '60s we had the same situation but only a handful of television networks. You cannot just blame this on the internet and polarized media as if many of the issues driving this revolt do not exist. I think if you really want to understand what is going on you need another axis to the political spectrum, namely view on institutions. The traditional American classical liberalism has always had a distrust of institutions and the people who run them while the neoliberal and neoconservative tradition has an unwavering trust in institutions and experts and if had not noticed, they are the ones who have run things for over the past two decades.
Nice job. Another explanation (which does not exclude but overlaps this one) is that the power structures (ie "the center") have been gradually and globally overtaken by sociopaths (proclaimed left OR right). A phenomenon that seemingly occurs when "normal" people stop paying attention or investing their time and energy, thus opening the way to the most opportunistic and unethical portion of the population.
Up versus down, not left versus right.
Love this well-produced distillation of broken media in particular. Another strand, it seems to me, may be the cultural differences between legacy media professionals (highly educated, from materially comfortable backgrounds) and many of their former audiences. While the internet changed the structure of media I keep thinking that this cultural gap is the really salient one.